CHM Revolution

Date

1979

Credit Line

Courtesy of the PARC Library

Copyright Owner

© PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated)

Keywords

supercomputer; Personal computer (PC); Interlisp; Cedar

Object ID

500004473

Dorado was a higher-performance successor to the Alto. It supported all three Alto programming environments: Smalltalk, Cedar/Mesa, and Interlisp. This “personal computer” had the same 60 nanosecond cycle time as IBM’s 360/91 supercomputer only 11 years earlier!